In the first of a new series of interviews with members of the international photography community – writers, curators, collect…
Link: http://1000wordsphotographymagazine.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/sean-ohagan-i-guess-if-you-dont-annoy.html?m=1
I’ll be glad to see the back of (too) big prints, which everyone seemed to be doing for a moment there, whether the work required it or not. And, please, no more Google Street View projects! I think photographers do tend to get apocalyptic about the post-digital deluge – Instagram etc. – and the sheer numbers can be scary, but most people don’t even see that stuff.
Sean O’Hagan on the thriving art of street photography in the surveillance age
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/apr/18/street-photography-privacy-surveillance
It took root in New York in the 60s and 70s with compelling images of street life that captured the heart of the city. But anxieties about privacy, terrorism, and paedophilia have conspired to make the art of street photography ever more difficult. Sean O’Hagan recalls the movement’s heyday and charts today’s pioneers
Sean O’Hagan applauds a meticulous biography of the photographer Dorothea Lange who will forever be defined by her images of the Great Depression
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/06/dorothea-lange-biography-review
Sean O’Hagan applauds a meticulous biography of Dorothea Lange who will forever be defined by her images of the Great Depression